Imperial

Imperial is a WordPress theme with no specific focus. It's not sure if it wants to be a personal blog, or house an online magazine. It's not even sure if it's black or white, for that matter!

• 2 full colour schemes - dark and light.
• User specified "accent" colour can be chosen from a colour picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
• Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
• Dynamic image resizing for post thumbnails used through-out the theme.
  Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
• Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
• Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
• Both sidebars are widgetized.
• Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots (4 125x125 buttons, 300x250 bigbox, 160x600 skyscraper). 728x90 leaderboard and 468x60 banner also supported.
• Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
• Tested on Windows and Mac - IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
• Support for Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS, WP-PageNavi, and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.
• Original PSD included!

• Imperial uses Tim McDaniels' TimThumb script for resizing the images used in the featured posts sections and in archive listings.TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4 .3+ installed.

Version 1.5 - Released: 08/13/2010

• Better implementation of Menus.
• Added a save button between each section in Theme Settings.

Version 1.4 - 06/17/2010

• Added category pull-down to Theme Settings panel to make featured category selection easier.
• Fixed a bug in the light stylesheet which gave images on the homepage a dark border.

Version 1.3 - 05/19/2010

• NEW Support for sub-pages (4 levels deep!) in the main navigation using a simple CSS solution. Doesn't work in IE6 (intentional).
• NEW WP 3.0 Menus support for main navigation.
• NEW WP 2.9+ Post Thumbnails - old method still in tact for backwards compatibility.
• NEW CSS3 text-shadow applied to text used in the nav, headings, and buttons in order to add depth.
• Fixed a bug that prevented code from being properly escaped in the head include.
• Fixed 125x125 buttons widget to allow use of non-image ads, such as AdSense.
• Fixed the layout of the 404 template.
• Fixed missing placeholder images.
• Fixed IE specific stylesheets to exclude IE8. This corrects a couple minor display bugs in IE8.
• Updated bundled TimThumb to version 1.14.
• Bundled help documentation with the theme itself, so it can be accessed from WP-Admin.

Version 1.2 - 09/21/2009

• Updated Theme Settings panel to include a description under each option.
• Fixed margins on post thumbnails for Internet Explorer.
• Fixed a style bug where a couple of dark images were being displayed in the comments area of the light scheme.
• Added text above the comment form if there are no comments on the post.
• Increased height of header-top.jpg images to make them 4x taller to allow for large logos.

Version 1.1 - 07/06/2009

• Wrapped call to Subscribe to Comments plugin in conditional statement.
• Moved post tnail under title and date in archive listings.
• Comment form now jumps to current position when replying to a comment.  Cancel restores it to original position.

Version 1.0 - 06/26/2009

• Initial release.

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